Midnight Gems -Your Free Mix-Tape Show - E 50 "Gems like Gems were meant to sound"
This song popped up when I was writing my latest Musical Sunday School session:
My Musical Sunday School Sessions - Funny Looking Angels
Which by the way is an awesome post with way too little interaction. While this song did not make the cut, it was a great gem and I kept it hidden till tonight. Love this lazy atmosphere, but I will not stay that way throughout our trip tonight Dear Reader.
Selett - Wheels Within Wheels
Where the previous song just sounded like stepping in a way-back machine, this next one is a way-back machine.Of course, I knew that Paul was married to a Linda, and I even remembered that she did something in Wings back then. But then I found this song, and I was just so taken in by the melody and the sweet and simple vibe. This weekend has her whole album on the planning hoping it has one more gem like this one.
Linda McCartney - Endless Days
And if you think that the last song was already the ultimate Gem look at what I found next.
When I heard a snippet of the voice I thought it was Ren, but after the second word, I was like who the fluff are you? Neil Young refurbished?
Asaf Avidan - My Old Pain
The first ever Midnight Gems Session was filled with shoegaze London grammar-like songs and that is still a niche I love to get lost in and this Strawberry Girl did just that.
Alex Argot - Strawberry girl
Nope not the same girl, but probably the same hairdresser, but that is not the why i chose this song. I just love how these guys made a crossover between shoe gaze and goth. I don´t understand a word of it but this is like the Cure did it with My Bloody Valentine.
SadSvit - Небо
Guess I am having a hairdresser theme tonight and I like the night, especially this night, and where we are going....I just hope that the night likes me.
DARKWAYS - I Like The Night (And The Night Likes Me)
The hair theme can not be ignored tonight!! But we are heading for something special.
THEY DIE - OUR BLOOD (clubbing mix)
And that something special is not Crystal Castles, now I have to admit that I played this duo several times....before I learned what a dirty creep the male part of this band was. That doesn´t mean I don't like their sound anymore but since I know they will always have this MJ dirty stigma.
Luckily there is a politically correct option, not that I care music is music and does not link to what the musicians do in their free time. But it's a good excuse to play Alice.
ALICE GLASS - STILLBIRTH
Damn for some reason she makes me feel like I am listening to a heavy-doped version of the Shiny Toy Guns, and I love ST Guns so I was freaking impressed by her Stillbirth.
The idea was to end tonight's session with this song and just before I finalized my set I found this collab with the guy from SOAD. It does not sound like Chop Suey at all but damn it´s sexy, cool, and excentric.
Tina Guo - Moonhearts in Space Official Music Video ft. Serj Tankian
Damn, that was another very fine set, hope you enjoyed the trip, and see you next week!
Encore
It does not fit the theme tonight but it was good to hear Chester.
Friendly Fire - Linkin Park
Youtube Playlist.
All these gems were added to this week´s YouTube playlist.
All Midnight Gems Playlist can be found here
Spotify Playlist:
The Spotify playlist might not capture the whole show but is meant to represent it as well as Spotify makes it possible:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27rRQn96Ks7CCGoL82aJFC
Riddle Me This
Guess What, my riddle has been solved. You are too late to make an easy dollar, better luck next time!
What the fluff is Midnight Gems?
Somewhere lost in time, trying to escape out of the rabbit hole back into the rat race there is a vacuum..... that´s the place where midnight gems are found.
My Midnight Gems will try to uncover & recover those beautiful songs that nobody ever noticed or might have been forgotten.
Who the fluff am I?
Being a former DJ playing about everything and having an uncompleted study of radio journalism. I have been wanting to do this for years...Thought about it many nights and guess now it´s time to finally take it to the streets.
Hope you enjoyed this well-known wave of fantastic music and that you still feel like joining me on the next Midnight Gems Session coming soon.
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Nice one, I was listening to these gems on spotify earlier today when the playlist went up! 😀
You Cheater!
Or maybe that is a great compliment🤔
But it was a nice eclectic set mixing up quite a few genres without getting to weird, I was pretty pleased how it turned out.
Yes, I like how you mixed some genres and it made for a nice and chilled playlist.
Yup that was my feel as well although that black hair with the Pulp fiction styling is a theme that does not show on Spotify ;)
you have a volumptious woman theme running through I noticed. It is similar to your True Stories series.
Uhh no comment but definitely a theme there blush
It's pretty crazy how all of these are always new to me. You would think eventually I would have heard of at least one of them. Linda Mcartney doesn't count :)
Linda Does Count, I never heard her do solo stuff, and Linkin park in the encore with their new song, and Serje in song 9 from System of Down there are some familiar faces....
Even though I’m not familiar with those songs, they really sound nice
I love them!
Thats awesome because that is exactly what I try to achieve